[OOC] A L T E R E D M I R R O R (High-Casual)

[Savato]

Since there were "issues" with my character I made changes. I'm not changing it again. What you see is what you get.

@silvermist1116

We'll see.

I'll review when I'm on break.

[silvermist1116]

Doesn't matter what you say. I'm not changing it again.

[Savato]

■ 1: The GM's have the final say in this roleplay,

@Savato

Let's not get an attitude now. I never asked for a change in the first place, since the original thing was fine.

Also link is broken.

[Keksalot]

@Superman
>Also, the power restraining device for every single character will be the collar shown in the OOC
One problem i have with what's shown ooc is that it can literally be pulled off since it has a hole in it. Also it'd be cooler if all of our powers would've been blocked in our own specific ways with means customly tailored for every separate test subject.
I mean, if these fuckers already have tech that allows them to nullify any sort of energy, power or ability while being a simple mass-produced collar, then why are they still trying to research things? Pinnacle of scientific progress has been achieved already.

[Savato]

@silvermist1116 So, your new power may need a little explaining. Mostly because I don't get what she does with the 'matter' she's absorbed. Does she become an object made of said matter? A golem? Does she just absorb matter like a sponge and voila? You need to be a lot more precise here, because matter is literally anything you can touch in the world, so no energy or soundwaves or nothing. But that's still absurdly open ended, so I'm simply asking for extra details.

@Keksalot Good thing a collar can be opened and closed o; o; o;

Also easy, the device can simply restrain the specific means their bodies employ to exert the powers.

Sure they could have tailor-made stuff, but for your character for instance, you'll get 0 character interaction until the escape if that's the case' A collar just makes it convenient and easier for everyone to be in the same room without a couple powergaming the shit out of my patience.

When locked up they can have extra secure cells tailor made, however.

[Keksalot]

@Savato
>Also easy, the device can simply restrain the specific means their bodies employ to exert the powers.
So on my guy the collar does what? Somehow generates a field that blocks out any sort of quantum instabilities and completely enforces common casuality?

[Savato]

@Keksalot It can be that, if you want.

It can also simply nullify whatever they inserted in his being that enables such powers. I mean they kind of created these powers, or at least, designed the vessels in a way that they can contain said powers. It isn't far fetched to say that they have the means to disconnect any form of access to the powers they've conferred to these people.

That or you can also remain in a lead room all day while everyone is partying o;

[Keksalot]

Oh, do they actually treat people in this facility like people?
As in, let them out to socialize and celebrate birthdays?

[Savato]

@Keksalot ... Nah.

They can socialize, yes, and have their own living quarters and such, but they can't be TOO happy now can't they?

Though then again, I'm sure some experiments would involve happier stuff o; Doubt they'll be around long enough, however.

[Keksalot]

Interesting. Could you expand a bit more on our living conditions and treatment we receive?
I first thought that we will be deprived of anything that a living being can be deprived of since nobody wants to accidentally feel attached to the test subject or experience some sort of emotions toward them since it will seriously hinder the research or even potentially cause a containment breach.

[Savato]

@Keksalot Keeping them isolated would yield little interesting results!

They'll be fighting alongside each other, so may as well let them develop bonds. It could potentially lead to interesting alternatives!

I'll expand more on it when out of work.

[Keksalot]

OH, so we are first of all developed as living weapons? This is fucking metal as fuck, i love it.

[Savato]

@Keksalot Yes and no.

Some are, some are from other projects but have been deemed more adequate as living weapons (See Parkinson) due to certain shortcomings.

[Superman]

Alright I think that a lot of us have questions, complaints, and concerns about this roleplay. While we are trying to help as best as we can, this OOC just came up today and we're still trying to finalize everything before we start the IC. We're not trying to keep you in the dark, we just want all the information settled first.

Oh and yes the collars close, they're shown open like that but once on a person's neck, it closes around it and can't be removed by physical means as far as the subjects are concerned. It makes it easier, simple, rather than putting people in straight jackets and helmets and everybody in their own little corner of the looney bin. For down time and in their cell if they want that, by all means.

Tonight when I arrive home I'll try to type something up for more explanation of the current conditions and what not, some of the plot, etc. while I talk it out with the other GM's. But we are simply trying to help and making this as smooth as possible so we can start and things can be fair and enjoyable.

So good luck my friends, I'll be back in a few hours (after I catch a charmander hopefully).

[Keksalot]

So this is less of a research center in which we are literally just testing material that has to be so inconveniently kept alive and fed and more of a traininig facility where us socializing with each other and personell and developing personalities, bonds and independent thought and emotion is actually encouraged to a degree because then we will make for better soldiers/transhumans/whoever they intend to make us into. Do i get this right?

Also, Parkinson is totally not the type of girl to be a living weapon, IMO. Her attack power is destructive but extremely short-ranged and suited only for one-on-one combat where opponent actively allows himself to be touched. She'd be a great asset in medical work and any sort of highly precise or time-related research though.

[Savato]

@Keksalot That is the point, she wasn't built as one.

If she were, her ability would likely be long range as well and thus pretty much be game breaking.

Let's let her EVOLVE to that point, as it is what they plan to do with the whole cast.

[Keksalot]

@Savato
Okay, here's Ψ 2.0. Tell me if shit's still wrong. Or needs a nerf to the displacement part of the power.

Ψ

Appearance:(Might change)

Codename:Subject Ψ

Age:7 Years/~1 Second

Gender:Male

Height:193

Weight:59

Personality:As cliched and boring as it sounds, Ψ actually is not a human - inside of an only slightly elongated skull, beneath the pale visage, in the depths of smiling green eyes hides something completely alien to the human mind. No version of Ψ was ever exposed to any sort of society or really meaningful social interactions before reaching it's analogue of puberty, yet it always developed a complete semblance of sentience and conscious thought mere months after coming to life in a highly expensive test tube, all on its own, and it quite unnerved the personnel - an even greater mystery is how exactly did it manage to learn English. Ψ is by no means malevolent or evil - not any more so than any run-of-the-mill high-functioning sociopath who does not feel any sort of obligation to follow the widely accepted norms and does it only out of convenience and to ensure his own safety. Ψ's main motivation at the moment is to make it so that his prolonged existence can't be stopped by anyone except himself - as such, escaping the facility is paramount, though between the attempts he attempts to remain on the best possible terms with his creators and researchers, being friendly to the best of his abilities, and cooperating with the personnel.

Power/Weakness: Explosive Teleportation, Increased Durability, Super-Sight.
Explosive Teleportation - Ψ's body and brain generate a fantastic field of quantum instability that allows him to essentially be in many points of space at once due to a specific sort of probability manipulation - at least that is how the ability is currently explained by the kind people that keep him in here. Whenever he makes a conscious or unconscious effort of will, the field agitates the fabric of time-space and then, faster than in a blink of an eye, without any buildup, Ψ just ceases to exist at one point and immediately appears in the another place of his choosing - or, rather, theoretically, he ceases to exist in one universe and suddenly appears in another, where everything except his position in space is exactly the same. The only cue to the teleportation taking effect being a loud thunderclap produced by air that is quickly filling up the space that Ψ's body has left behind.

What makes this already potent power a truly horrible force, however, is the fact that matter and objects at the destination point of the teleportation do not just change places with Ψ or somehow cease to exist. Instead they are extremely violently displaced in the direction and vector of his choosing - for example, if he teleports into a wall or even a free space that is filled with nothing but air, the volume of rock, air or metal equal to the volume of his body is very quickly pushed away from its previous position to make place for Ψ, and he can effectively control the shape and direction in which all this material will be shot out. It is possible to concentrate all of the displaced material into a very thin 'ray' that will be utterly terrifying in it's penetrating power or force it to be expelled in an explosion all around him, take the shape of a cone or wide line.

Increased Durability - Ψ's flesh is incredibly dense, his blood pressure is very high - though his wounds close quickly, not allowing for lots of blood loss - and his system excels a normal human's one in general resilience. While it does not really provide any sort of long-term endurance or stamina, it is enough to compensate for sudden and often drastic pressure changes that come after his teleportations, cold that he suffers without clothing and sometimes compensate adequately for the hydraulic impact produced by a bullet hitting soft non-vital issues - and yes, they did shoot him in the gut with a 9mm to check.

Super-Sight - Ψ possesses better-than-perfect eyesight and sense of perspective, able to view minute details at quite long distances, see in the dark and notice slightest changes in observed scenery. This is absolutely vital for the use of his power, which requires a big deal of precision and concentration to teleport over large distances or through any sort of semi-transparent obstacles, such as smoke or glass, seeing as they change the way things are perceived through them. Additionally, Ψ's reacts to seen threats much faster than an average person.
In theory, this ability alone could help to make him a great long-range marksman - that is if his hands didn't shake so much. And if he could be possibly trusted around a firearm. And knew how to use one.

Luckily, the power is not utterly undeniable and has it's weaknesses and limitations:
1) Due to an unknown reason, Ψ is unable to teleport into, and therefore displace matter of living animals and humans - plants, fungi, and cadavers are within his reach, but any sort of even remotely large living vertebrates are not.

2) Similarily, Ψ can not teleport into, or displace large amounts of especially dense materials. His upper limit seems to stand somewhere at 11,3 kg/m3, which means that an opaque sheet of lead is sufficient to prevent him from teleporting behind it. For now.

3) Teleportation at large distances that still lie within Ψ's line of sight requires arduous concentration, effort of will and time for the quantum instability field to extend towards the needed point - this implementation of his power also produces some tell-tale signs, such as Ψ beginning to briefly wink in and out of existence whilst being accompanied by his signature thunderclaps and produce multiple transient, phantom, non-manifested copies of himself all over the place. This limitation is why he is still allowed to have the privilege of looking through windows while remaining under observation.

4) Every spatial jump brings after it a brief cooldown period during which Ψ's body is once again tethered to his new position in space - it lasts for a time of 1 to 3 to sometimes 5 seconds or more in the case of long-range teleportation. Ψ can force himself to make another jump or even a series of teleportations in quick succession, but such a strain on his abilities invariably results in his body losing cohesion with itself and produces immediate side effects amongst which are vomiting, intense bleeding from various orifices, sudden drops and increases in blood pressure, short-term memory loss or loss of conscience, hallucinations or emergence of mental instabilities. As of now, the limit of successive jumps to which any version of Ψ was ever pushed is 11, followed by a month of recuperation from bloody flux and three simultaneous brain aneurysms. The reason behind these grisly effects seems to be that during quick successive teleportations Ψ's body doesn't have enough time to stabilize in the alpha universe and thus with every new jump the position of his body is a little bit off - his own cells displace slightly into each other with very negative consequences.

5) Ψ can only teleport himself. He can not bring someone along or carry something with him when he jumps - in fact, he can't even keep his clothing on, which is why he largely doesn't even bother to wear any. A request to give him a tattoo - strictly for scientific purposes, Junior Researcher ████ says - is currently under consideration.

Other:(Looking for a theme.)

[WanderingSpirit]

Arc Project

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Appearance

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Codename:
Nexus

Age:
22

Gender:
Male

Height/Weight:
5'10 / 150 lbs

Personality:
Nexus' personality is quite bland due to security measures which have been taken which suppresses his emotions, flattening out him to be a bland and smooth slate. Appearing stoic most of the time due to his helmet covering his head most of the time with his eyes unsuspectingly staring at everyone one-sidedly through the pitch black visor. Appearing calm and collected on the surface of his silent and fierce presence, it makes it hard to determine anything about him through the helmet he wears. Stacking along with the fact that he rarely talks makes it even more eerie and strange to talk to him due to him communicating simply with body motions. Being a very curious soul, he prefers to be in his own company for whatever reasons as he stares aimlessly somewhere.

Power/Weakness:

Electricty Manipulation

Nexus has the ability to control electricity and manipulate for his own needs and uses it for a variety of purposes. Being practically embedded with the element of electricity, he has the power to generate large amounts of electricity as well when his powers aren't being suppressed but can also be absorbed from other sources. He is able to regenerate faster when he has the element within himself and basically empower himself with electricity. Also with this electricity that he controls, he can use for a wide range of uses which makes his powers potent in any application or output. From orbs of electricity to lightning streaks or thunderbolts, his powers has a variety of ways to manifest itself. Capable of manipulating any properties of electricity that he is controlling which allows him to do many other things with it as long as he knows what he's doing. He has more difficulty controlling large masses of electricity on the other hand which can have side-effects for doing so.

After exerting a large portion of his powers, he needs to recharge after by either resting or consuming electricity from other sources. Once he runs out of 'juice' basically, he simply loses all of his powers until he does one of the above. Depending on how much electricity that he tries to grasp beyond his skill, he may become simply become fatigued and nauseous or in more extreme cases the loss of conscious along with the loss of control on whatever he is doing as well.

Other:
Nothing to see here...

Hmm... Hopefully he's accepted

[Savato]

@Keksalot I think Superman PM'd you concerning this.

@WanderingSpirit There's nothing really wrong. If you're going to be SUPER creative with electricity to the point where you make things that go beyond the vanilla 'lightning orbs' and such, please do notify me and mark it in the CS. Would hate to have something like magnetism get pulled out of a butthole.

Approved.

[Keksalot]

@Savato



No sir, no PM's here. I do have a bad feeling about this tho.